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Poster: Petari Date: Sep 2, 2013 4:17am
Forum: forums Subject: Atari ST TOSEC is corrupt

I DL-ed it twice (14GB) and in both cases getting errors - unexpected end of archive. Able to unpack only some 30% of content.
And I compared both downloads - they are same in bit. So, error is not in downloads, but on Archive host server.

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Poster: aibek Date: Sep 2, 2013 7:31am
Forum: forums Subject: Re: Atari ST TOSEC is corrupt

You are probably referring to this: http://archive.org/details/Atari_ST_TOSEC_2012_04_23 Please compare the md5 or sha1 hash of the downloaded file with the ones here: http://ia801602.us.archive.org/35/items/Atari_ST_TOSEC_2012_04_23/Atari_ST_TOSEC_2012_04_23_files.xml If they match, then please report the corruption on the item’s page as a review. After that, here is a suggestion. As the IA project page says, the collection is merely a mirror of the TOSEC collection maintained by Jason Scott at http://www.tosecdev.org/index.php So, you may look for the Atari file on that page, and whether they match the corrupt IA file or no, inform Mr Scott. If they match, he has to upload the master file anew from his archives. If they do not, he has to correct the IA file. --- Updated: The error is probably not this. The IA files seems to be OK as I can browse it online. (i.e., the IA zipview-er is able to correctly unzip the file.) Check my other answer!
This post was modified by aibek on 2013-09-02 14:31:23

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Poster: aibek Date: Sep 2, 2013 7:23am
Forum: forums Subject: Re: Atari ST TOSEC is corrupt

The error may be something entirely different. A www search suggests that some programs cannot correctly unzip large files (I came across 2GB and 4GB limits). What program and OS are you using. It appears that 7zip is supposed to work correctly. http://linuxtips.wikispaces.com/UnzipBigFiles https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/zip-unzip-file-too-big-338131/
This post was modified by aibek on 2013-09-02 14:23:24

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Poster: Petari Date: Sep 2, 2013 12:07pm
Forum: forums Subject: Re: Atari ST TOSEC is corrupt

Right. In meantime I got WinZip and with it was able to unpack everything. I tried with Total Commander and WinRar - somehow don't like WinZip. So, archive is OK.

In any case, it would be much better to have so large archive
split in multiple parts - max 1GB ones for instance. It is not best to DL so large file, and if there is some error you need to DL whole again, instead only part where is error - what happens sometimes when DL .

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Poster: aibek Date: Sep 2, 2013 6:09pm
Forum: forums Subject: Re: Atari ST TOSEC is corrupt

I think it would be useful if you mention which programs worked, and which did not on the item’s details page.

I agree that such large zipped files are not a good idea.

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Poster: Petari Date: Sep 3, 2013 1:00am
Forum: forums Subject: Re: Atari ST TOSEC is corrupt

I wrote review with my experiences of depacking problems and what SW is not good, and what worked.